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Tuesday, July 7th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commissions, EFCC, boss, Ibrahim Magu, has been suspended. Reports say multiple sources confirmed the suspension to journalists covering the presidential panel investigating Mr Magu over alleged corruption. On Monday, the panel grilled Magu for several hours at the Presidential Villa, Abuja before he was taken into police […]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Zimbabwe’s largest nursing union says police have arrested more than a dozen nurses and union representatives protesting against poor pay. The nurses are demanding to be paid in US dollars, saying that inflation, which is running at nearly 800%, is eroding their salaries. “At least 13 of our members and union leaders […]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghana’s main opposition has announced a female candidate as a vice-presidential candidate for the first time. Naana Opoku Agyeman will join forces with former president John Dramani Mahama as he attempts a comeback in December’s election. Prof Opoku Agyeman is a former education minister and a former vice-chancellor of the University of […]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu …Remanded in Prison (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Magistrate Court sitting in Enugu North council Area of Enugu state on Monday arraigned and ordered that a couple, Mr Jude and Ifeoma Ozougwu, be reminded in Correctional Service centre Nsukka for attempted murder of their 10 year old housemaid, Miss. Nneoma Nnadi, pending […]
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Monday, July 6th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Aide to former President John Agyekum Kufour, has rubbished claims that Ghana’s former head of state is recuperating at the University of Ghana Hospital after contracting the deadly coronavirus. Speaking to Daily Mail, Osei-Adubofour, stated that the former president and his family are healthy and not in the hospital. He said: “He […]
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Monday, July 6th, 2020
By Nwa Diokpa Former Ghana President, Jerry John Rawlings, has stated that corruption has increased in Ghana since he departed office. He stated this while speaking to Kwaku Sakyi-Addo on Asaase Radio lamenting that he supervised “neat and clean” politics during his time as president but subsequent presidents have not followed the pattern, instead have […]
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Monday, July 6th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Unlike previous political dispensations, the opposition people’s Democratic party PDP, has declared that it would not implore zoning in picking candidate for the 2021 Anambra state governorship election. African Examiner gathered that most of the prominent political parties, including the ruling All progressive Grand Alliance APGA in the state, […]
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Monday, July 6th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The absence of an Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) witness, on Monday, stalled hearing in an alleged N6.9billion fraud and money laundering suit filed against Ayodele Fatose in a Federal High Court in Lagos. Fayose was first arraigned on Oct. 22. 2018, before Justice Mojisola Olatotegun, alongside his company, Spotless Investment […]
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Monday, July 6th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Director-General Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, has confirmed seven deaths, while 14 people were rescued at the end of the rescue operation of a boat mishap Sunday, July 5. Oke-Osanyintolu made the confirmation Monday in an interview at the Ipakodo Jetty during the conclusion of the search and […]
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Monday, July 6th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The immediate past National Vice Chairman (North-West), of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Inuwa Abdulkadir is dead. Reports said the late APC Chieftain’s friend, Senator Lawal Shuaibu, confirmed the incident in a text message. He was said to have died in the early hours of Monday after a brief illness AbdulKadir […]
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Monday, July 6th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – South Africa will further reopen its schools in line with its phased-in reopening strategy amid an upsurge in confirmed COVID-19 cases, the government announced on Sunday. Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga, who made this known in a statement, said that from July 6, schools would reopen for Grades R, 6 and […]
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Sunday, July 5th, 2020
By Sufuyan Ojeifo (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – In a season of partisan frenzy, with many red-eyed politicians focused on various power-grab projects, discipline, party supremacy and rule-governed processes become threatened, as it was in the enclave of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) until recently when a decisive presidential intervention was brought into the mix. President […]
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Sunday, July 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria has recorded 544 new COVID-19 cases, a development which has taken the country’s total infection tally to 28,711. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this on its official twitter handle on Sunday. NCDC said that as of July, 5. 2020, 544 new confirmed cases and 11 deaths were recorded […]
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Sunday, July 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At Least 166 People Were Killed In Ethiopia After A Popular Singer’s Death Sparked Violent Protests, Which Resulted In Riots, In The Country’s Oromia Region And Capital Addis Ababa, Police Sources Said Sunday. Girma Gelam, Oromia Region’s Police Deputy Commissioner, Told Media on Saturday Night That 156 People Have Died In The […]
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Sunday, July 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) Sudan’s police chief and his deputy were fired on Sunday, the transitional government said, days after large protests demanding more measures against officials linked to ousted President Omar al-Bashir. Adel Mohamed Bashaer, Director-General of Sudan’s Police Force was “relieved of his duties” and replaced with Ezz Eldin Sheikh Ali, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok […]
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Sunday, July 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has gone into a 14-day self-isolation after one of his close associates tested positive for the novel coronavirus, a statement has said. The statement signed by the Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, late Saturday said Akufo-Addo decided to take the precautionary measure in compliance with the […]
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Sunday, July 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced new appointments and redeployments of senior management positions in the corporation. African Examiner learnt that this is part of ongoing efforts to strengthen and reposition the corporation for greater efficiency and profitability. Mr. Adokiye Tombomieye, the Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division (COMD), […]
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Sunday, July 5th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigeria has recorded 603 new COVID-19 cases in the country, as total infections from the virus climbed 28,167. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) made this known on its official twitter handle on Saturday. The NCDC said that as at the June 4, 603 new confirmed cases and 6 deaths were […]
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Saturday, July 4th, 2020
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state police Command has arrested a 24 year old house wife, Mrs. Ifeoma Ozougwu, for using hot pressing iron, nail, and other sharp objects to inflict various degrees of body injuries on her 10 year old housemaid, Miss Nneoma Nnadi. According to the command’s spokesman, Mr. […]
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Saturday, July 4th, 2020
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi has tested positive for the deadly COVID-19. The development was announced Saturday, via the Governor’s Twitter handle. Governor Umahi also disclosed that some of his closest aides have tested positive for the virus. Meanwhile, the Governor disclosed that he had directed his Deputy to take over […]
